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Welcome to our Home Learning Zone.

All your home learning needs can now be found on our Virtual School. Go back to the homepage and look for the red Virtual School button. Try and complete any of these activities and remember to send them back to your teacher via the email address. These can be found in the class page!

Reminders to children and parents! 4th May 2020

Please visit Purple Mash and log in to see the 2dos for your child. Here, you can see what tasks your teacher has set. Some children are logging in, but not completing their work! If you are unable to log in, see what work your child has, or if your child is unable to complete the work set please contact us and we will look at this for you. Thank you.

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Please click the link below to be directed to our school Facebook page.

IPS Facebook Page

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How to access IDL through the Internet

How to Access IDL.pdf

IDL is a spelling/reading programme that all children in our school have access to. The programme itself determines the correct level for the child, and provides them with spelling and reading activities to support their learning in this areas.

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Below are some fun, exciting and engaging websites to help you with your learning while you are at home :)

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The National Literacy Trust Family Zone

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My Daily Diary - By Harold Hello everyone! I'm looking forward to sharing my daily diary with you, starting on Monday 23rd of March! See you on Monday! Love from Harold xxx

Join Harold with these fun home learning activities - Lesson 1 Keeping Myself Healthy - inside and out!

Join Harold with these fun home learning activities - Lesson 2 Staying Safe Online

Join Harold with these fun home learning activities - Lesson 3 How kindness can help me and other people

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PE with Joe Starting Monday 23rd March I'm going to be hosting a free workout aimed at kids LIVE on my YouTube channel. With the schools closed and with us all spending more time at home, it's more important than ever that we keep moving and stay healthy and positive. Exercise is an amazing tool to help us feel happier, more energised, and more optimistic. The workouts will be fun and suitable for all ages and even the adults can get involved. You don't need any equipment, so just tune in to my YouTube channel at 9am each morning for a 30-minute, fun workout. One more thing! I really need your help to spread this message. So please please share this with everyone that might like to get involved, and together we can help keep the nation moving 🙏🏻 Lots of love, Joe

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Go Noodle GoNoodle® engages 14 million kids every month with movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts. Available for free at school, home, and everywhere kids are!

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Cosmic Kids More than a million kids do yoga, mindfulness and relaxation with Jaime on the Cosmic Kids YouTube Channel. Parents and teachers report significant improvements in self-regulation, focus and empathy. But the videos are BRILLIANT FUN so kids love doing them!

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Twinkl Resources Schools across the globe are responding to the outbreak of the Coronavirus and governments take further measures to stop the spread of COVID-19. We've not only created home learning and school closure packs, but have also introduced an offer for all of them to be completely free. Whether you're a teacher, parent or home educator we've put together a simple, step-by-step guide about this offer of help, for you to use. This guide is not designed to override or replace any official guidance, but is intended to advise on using the Twinkl website during this period.

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Phonics Play In response to the ongoing situation, we have decided to make PhonicsPlay free to use during this period. Children can use the site at home without their parents needing to subscribe. To access our resources all you need to do is log on using the following details: Username: march20 Password: home

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Relax Kids Free Calm Pack - The Calm Pack helps give reassurance and a feeling of calm and safety to help children and their families manage changes and navigate these uncertain times.

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Topmarks Education Online Educational Resources

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The Maths Factor by Carol Vorderman Following the Government’s decision to implement widespread school closures across the UK to minimise the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19). We will be making The Maths Factor FREE for everyone (usually about £2 per week) to support childrens’ continued learning at home for the duration of the UK Schools closure period. We want to help you and your child as much as we can.

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The World of David Walliams David Walliams has announced that he will be releasing 30 free audio stories to help entertain school children during the coronavirus crisis

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STEM Learning The widespread school closures have created new challenges for everyone supporting young people. STEM Learning is working hard to develop and roll out a range of materials, which we hope will help you. Our subject experts have put together a selection of resources - all of which are completely free for everyone to access. Our subject experts are also available from 8.30am to 4.30pm on weekdays via our webchat, which you can find in the bottom right hand corner of all our web pages. We will be adding new content and ideas every week.

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White Rose Maths As schools worldwide close for now in response to COVID-19, you might be wondering how best to help your child or children with their studies at home. Always happy to help, the White Rose Maths Team has prepared a series of five maths lessons for each year group from Year 1-8. We will be adding five more each week for the next few weeks. Every lesson comes with a short video showing you clearly and simply how to help your child to complete the activity successfully.

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Chester Zoo Join us live for a virtual zoo day - Gates open 10am

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The Great Bug Hunt 2020 The Great Bug Hunt is now open for entries from home! Due to the closure of schools, we have opened up this competition to all primary school children (and their parents!)

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The Hour of Code You don't need to register to participate! The Hour of Code activities are available year-round.

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Edinburgh Zoo Watch some of the animals live at Edinburgh Zoo through their live cams:

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Boogie Mites Enjoy music sessions with your children to boost development and mood. Your children have regular Boogie Mites music sessions at nursery and they will love taking part with you at home. Boogie Mites are offering free live sessions for you to join at home over the coming months and access to the videos via face book groups and their youtube channel

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Read On Over 7000 books free to access online. Happy Reading!

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Coronavirus: list of online education resources for home education We have brought together an initial list of online educational resources to help children to learn at home. These websites have been identified by some of the country’s leading educational experts and offer a wide range of support and resources for pupils of all ages.

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Steve Backshall - Wildlife Lessons Steve Backshall will be hosting wildlife lessons live Monday to Friday at 9:30am.

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Sharks Community Trust Home Learning Resources We have created booklets of activities for children year 1 to year 6. Each session says what age group it is aimed at but feel free to use any sessions.

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Premiership Rugby Champions There is also a fantastic new resource from Premiership Rugby Champions that will be released each week. The Premiership Rugby Champions programmes can already be accessed through their new schools App and now the programme is hoping to help teachers and parents too.

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National Literacy Trust - Family Zone Family Zone is full of free activities and ideas to keep your child busy at home, whilst also benefiting their reading, writing and language development.

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Parenting in a Pandemic Top Tips to help you parent during a pandemic. Fear usually drives us to take urgent action, however, children can be really traumatised by fear so it is our job as adults to understand how to model overcoming fear, and how to help our children overcome their fear.

Supporting Primary to High School Transition for parents & students For most children and parents, the transition from primary to secondary school is a worrying time. This short free course provides proven techniques for making the transition easier for both parents and children.

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Things to do indoors with your children Stuck indoors and not sure what to do with the kids? It can be tricky to find things to do that can hold the attention of the older ones, while being easy enough for younger ones to join in too, but check out our fun tips below to keep them all entertained.

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Celebrate VE Day! You’re all invited to our ‘Stay at Home Street Party!’ to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day!

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Bolton Music Service Online Learning for Schools Resources for Schools Alongside your lessons with Bolton Music Service Teachers, these videos and activities will supplement your music resources. Download our free resources, videos and links to other websites and give your pupils some great activities to work on at home.

Free Music Resources for Primary Schools – VE Day Special At Bolton Music Service we have produced some resources for KS1 and KS2 that are linked to the VE Day celebrations on Friday 8th May. These include links to the song ‘Take Me Home’ which was written by Laura White from Atherton. The lyrics reflect the feelings of those who were separated during wartime, but they are very much relevant today during the current situation. There are also other songs and activities that we hope your children and families will enjoy.

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Safe+Sound – Wednesday 6th May @ 10:00am. This broadcast is available for KS2 Students This broadcast will feature safety talks from HMB Training, Water Safety, Kitchen Safety and Relax Kids. Safe+Sound is a project set up by Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service with the aim of supporting communities to make informed and positive lifestyle choices, improving their health, safety and wellbeing. The project runs a variety of interactive and practical workshops for children, young people and over 60s delivered by multiple partners and agencies.

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Phonic Books - For beginner and catch-up readers Stories about our popular Moon Dogs characters doing activities at home. These are free resources to read and print at home. Check the reader knows the target sounds before reading. Encourage them to read the words by blending the sounds together from left to right throughout the word.

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Space related educational resources for home schooling This collection draws together resources educators and parents can use in school or the home.

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The Drowning Prevention Charity There are a host of free, easy to use resources available for schools and community groups to use, aimed at helping to change and influence children’s behaviour near water and keep them safe. After completing the form you will be redirected to the FREE resources.

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